Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best.
Marva CollinsRead
When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Teachers share responsibility for their students' failures, reflecting on their own teaching methods and support.
In this quote, Marva Collins emphasizes the deep connection between teachers and their students' success or failure. It suggests that a teacher's role is not just to impart knowledge, but also to foster an environment where students can thrive. When students struggle, it signals that teachers must reflect on their approach, adapt their methods, and ensure they are providing the necessary support and resources for their students to succeed.
Themes
TeachersStudentsFailureEducationResponsibility
In practice
Example use cases
During a faculty meeting, when discussing student performance, a teacher might quote, 'When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.' to highlight the need for reflection in their teaching methods.
More from Marva Collins
All quotes βOnce children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.
Marva CollinsRead
Excellence is not an act, but a habit.
Marva CollinsRead
When someone is taught the joy of learning, it becomes a life-long process that never stops, a process that creates a logical individual. That is the challenge and joy of teaching.
Marva CollinsRead
Similar quotes
I think that the greatest education in the world is the education which helps one to be able to do the right things at the time it has to be done.
Charles KetteringRead
only through new words might new worlds be called into order
Saul WilliamsRead
If you wish to learn swimming you have to go into the water and if you wish to become a problem solver you have to solve problems.
George PolyaRead
To put it simply, school readiness means creating in this country a public love of children.
Ernest L. BoyerRead
It is important for young entrepreneurs to be adequately self-aware to know what they do not know.
Mark ZuckerbergRead
When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program, we required the poets to take workshops in fiction writing, and we required the fiction writers to take workshops in poetry.
Edward HirschRead